The point is: A writer for Mattel thought it was completely okay to have the boys solve Barbies computer problems/female computer problems. When Barbie/girls are in a computer science class whereby they should be able to do this at that point. If nothing else, ask her female teacher, yeah?
Meh, maybe it's just me. But I'm as likely to go to Barbie to teach my daughter about gender roles as I am to go to a porn stars to teach her about the importance of voting.
It's not so much "gender roles" (just we were discussing those) but more "this is completely clueless and
partly gender-roles."
It was tone-deaf of the writer to even say "I am... a computer scientist" and then make the story about how Barbie completely fucks everything over to where her male fellow students have to fix her screw-up for her.
Why couldn't she solve that herself? Throw the gender-role aside for a moment. It's a poor story written anyway because of that. It certainly won't help women feel confident to deal with computers if a book is going to go "you'll just screw everything up to where us
men have to fix it for you." You get where I'm going, yes?
I mean why even mention Barbie is a computer scientist if 1) she isn't doing the coding herself and 2) she's getting others to do the work for her when she's (supposedly) in a comp-sci class.
It doesn't help women.
